In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman. Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie More Quotes by Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie More Quotes From Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny. Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie sarcasticmistakefunny A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew. Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie truth-isdoubt We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets. Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie regretdesiremen People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight. Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie clothessightpeople Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices. Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie prejudicenamesgiving There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul. Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie miserybodysoul It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field. Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie beastfieldsimagination An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see. Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie artistfeelsthinking To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life. Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie sacrificelove-islife If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal. Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie sense-of-humordealshumor Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death. Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie entertainmentformsake Disillusions all come from within ... from the failure of some dear and secret hope. The world makes no promises; we only dream it does; and when we wake, we cry! Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie expectationsdreamthinking Talking to you is only thinking to myself - made easier. Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie easiertalkingthinking When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then. Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie mayforgetmen I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible. Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie stepsmightlife A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies. Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie wifecareersmen Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant. Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie womenoceaneden All forced virtue is degrading in it effect. Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie degradingeffectsvirtue All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity. Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie discoveringvanity There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific. Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie public-lifeillloneliness
